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For nearly 30 years, Dave Smith has held a practice rooted in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) tradition. He was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, is a certified teacher for Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) which is combines contemporary emotion based scientific research with contemplative practices and psychology drawn from Buddhism and has studied Buddhist psychology at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS).
Dave teaches residential meditation retreats, weekly live dharma classes, online courses, and workshops. He has developed educational tools and resources, including mindfulness and emotional skills trainings, in both secular and Buddhist contexts. Dave also works with students 1:1 through his dharma mentoring program.
In 2016 he founded the Secular Dharma Foundation to foster the advancement of emotional and psychological well-being through the education and integration of mindfulness, psychology, and various therapeutic modalities. Dave has brought dharma and meditative interventions into a variety of settings including jails, prisons, youth detention centers and addiction treatment facilities. Dave lives in rural Colorado with his wife and two sons.
Two talks edited together that outline the location of dharma in American and potential side-effects.
These 2 talks, edited together explore the importance of distinguishing traits and states.
This two talks are spliced together. I explore the idea of a "turning point" in our life and in our practice.
Random and scattered reflections on 20 years of sobriety. Thanks!
This is a LONG talk. 8 separate talks spliced together from my weekly mentoring program. It offers academic perspectives on the 8 fold path and its cultivated, along with secular and contemporary poi…
Reflections on view related to joy/sorrow & gratitude/compasssion.
Overview of metta practice. This was given at the 2023 NYE retreat at Big Bear. Dave and Cheryl.
These 2 talks are edited together, they are very similar. Given for my weekly Dharma/Live Online class and also for students in the mentoring program. This transparent talk offers specific reflection…
This is my 300th episode! I can't believe it. I started uploading dharma talks back in 2012. Thanks for listening. This talk is HUGE. Seven talks spliced together from my dharma/live online course. …
This talk was given for the Dharma Live/Online weekly class. Feel free to join the practice community. HERE
Day one, morning session of the metta vipassana retreat in Montana. https://bozemandharmacenter.org/
First night talk of the metta vipassana retreat in Montana.
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Talk number 3, form Vallecitos retreat, October 1-8.
Talk 2 from Vallecitos retreat, October 1-8.